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Information on migration risks and opportunities

Indicator ID M3
Indicator full statement

# of CYM, families and community members who understand the risks and opportunities linked to migration 

Purpose

Importance

This indicator aims to measure whether the target population have gained knowledge on the risks associated with migration, on their rights, on available services and potential opportunities at different stages of their migration journey, thanks to Tdh activities.
ToC pathway

ToC pathway 1 – Information/ prevention of risks.
Related services

Catalogue of services: Awareness-raising and information, dissemination of specific information and knowledge on children and youth in migration, counselling on migration.

Definition

  • Risks: situations that may result in the violation of their rights as set out in the CRC, such as situations of exposure to violence, abuse, exploitation (enrolment in armed forces or groups, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in human beings, economic exploitation, maltreatment, negligence, delinquency, etc.) or situations of lack of or no access to basic social services (dropping out of school, etc.)

  • Opportunities: available services, existing educational services, employability opportunities during the journey, in transit and or destination countries.

How to collect & analyse the data

What do we count?

Tdh counts individuals.
How to calculate the indicator's value

This is the sum of persons receiving information and who reach a minimum level of understanding of the information given.

  1. Define information that should be understood by the target group members. These can include, for example, the following services for children:

    • common risks faced during the migration journey.

    • key available basic and protection services. Ex: psychosocial support for children who experienced violence or trauma, family reunification services for unaccompanied and separated children, child-Friendly Spaces where children can spend their free time.

  2. Decide which relevant information target group members should know about as a minimum to be considered as “having understood risks and opportunities” to offer them minimum protection if they undertake their journey. Be realistic – focus on the very practical information that they need.

  3. After awareness raising / Information activities, conduct short surveys assessing whether they are aware of the minimum information.  After a counselling session, ask some important probe questions to ensure that the person has retained the most important information. Ask the child to summarized in the end of your session what are the key information she/he has retained and check it is complete. 

  4. Count the number of respondents who knew about the minimum information required i.e those who can be considered as “having understood risks and opportunities”.
Data sources

Participants in information and awareness-raising activities.
Data collection methods and tools

Pre/post assessment (through surveys) or individual dialogue/interview. You can be creative if more formal / scholar approaches may not work.
Example of survey questions

Those questions should always be contextualized according to the content of your information/training programs. 

  • What are the main risks associated with migration?

  • Do you know how to get information on available services during your journey? Ex of follow-up question: have you heard of any service who is providing assistance to women who need help with getting their identity documents?
Disaggregation

This indicator is to be collected at project level. Please, disaggregate data by

  • Gender, age, disability.

  • Mobility status: 1) international migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, 2) IDP and internal Migrants, 3) Returnees, children from host communities.

  • Level of education (primary, lower secondary, upper secondary).

Limitations and precautions

  • This indicator differs from P.13 (% of surveyed key stakeholders that have gained understanding of migration context, local realities and CYM rights and needs) which targets other publics and other topics.

  • If possible, conduct both a “pre-test” and “post-test”, otherwise you will not know exactly the extent to which the respondents improved (or not) their understanding. If not possible, the post-test will enable you to only assess whether the key minimal content has been mastered by participants.  It is less accurate but can still be accepted. 

  • You may add questions to assess whether this acquired understanding is due to Tdh intervention.

  • Do not adopt an approach that would be too “school-like”.  Also include satisfaction questions and questions about participants’ perspectives vis-à-vis the information activity and migration issue in your survey,

  • Proving people knowledge of key topic is not only useful for measuring an indicator, but also for undertaking a process of summarizing the key information received to help people memorize

What further analysis are we interested in?

  • Can we harvest some positive outcomes beyond understanding benefits after the counselling/information intervention?

  • Is there any learning on how much this information / awareness raising eventually prevent CYM from risks during their journey?

  • Have these awareness/ information activities been set up in context of emergency?

Additional guidance

This guidance was prepared by Tdh ©
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